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SALON: HAM-HANDED OP-ED HURTS UNHOLY ALLIANCE
APR 27 Here's a post on Salon about Bobby Jindal's "ham-handed" op-ed about gay marriage and what it means for the bizarre alliance between big business and holy rollers. Heather Cox Richardson traces the history of that alliance, and explains why Bobby's strategy - which echoes one employed more than 50 years ago - just looks lame now.
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APR 27 Here's a package of articles and graphics from Scientific American that looks at the Gulf five years following the BP oil spill. Included is a story about the "missing oil," as well as a graphic that ranks the spill among the worst five in our history.
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APR 27 As our state goes up in flames on the funeral pyre of Bobby Jindal's desperate ambitions, one might say that the silence from the populace has been deafening. But this post from blogger Tom Aswell shows that folks are paying attention; he's given over his blog to a reader who is truly distressed about what's going down.
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ARRESTS MADE IN METAIRIE DOUBLE MURDER
APR 27 Here's the latest on the murder of a Metairie man and his teenage son last week. Apparently, they were shot by a pair of car burglars, the Picayune reports here. There's no reason given, yet, for why they were shot. The burglars who shot them were teens, too.
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GRACE: WHY WE GOTTA GO DOWN, TOO?
APR 27 Bobby Jindal's desperate and digging himself into a political hole he'll never get out of - but why should we suffer, too? That's a question columnist Stephanie Grace (and most of the rest of us) are asking these days. In this post, Grace is outlining the problems Jindal caused with his anti-gay (and anti-corporation) op-ed in the NYT.
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DAYNE WANTS LES TO GET INVOLVED
APR 27 Blogger Dayne Sherman wants LSU Football Coach Les Miles to get involved in the ongoing nightmare that is higher education funding (or lack thereof) here in Louisiana. If Miles were to stand on the steps of the capitol and threaten to shut down LSU football if the problem isn't fixed - it would get fixed, he says.
Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
Salon says Jindal's "ham-handed" op-ed exposes a growing rift between the evangelicals and big money. Also today, Aswell turns over his blog to a reader and Scientific American is looking at the BP spill.